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Originally Posted by Red
And then there is donations at store checkouts. Sportchek was the pioneer there. It's a few $$$ extra for everything now. Can't buy a tube of toothpaste without being asked for donations. It's organized panhandling.
This should be outlawed.
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I stopped donating for different causes at stores a few years ago. I hated the social pressure of being asked to donate a buck or two every checkout and looked into the issue. From what I understand, the store collecting the donations passes the collected money on to the charity and then benefits from getting a tax deduction for the charitable donations. I choose to make a lump sum to charities of my choice.
Tipping has resulted in me dining out far less often. One pub I went to had the default tip option being 50%. If you bypassed this option,your next screen had choices of 20/30/40%. I no longer frequent the place.